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Out in the Open

Out in the Open
  • Author(s): Jesús Carrasco, Margaret Jull Costa (translator)
  • Location(s): Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A young boy has fled his home. Crouched in his hiding place he hears the shouts of the men hunting him. When the search party has passed, what lies before him is an infinite, arid plain, one he must...

Out of Africa

Out of Africa
  • Author(s): Karen Blixen
  • Location(s): Kenya
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1914-1931

In 1914 Karen Blixen arrived in Kenya with her husband to run a coffee farm. Instantly drawn to the land, she spent her happiest years there until the plantation failed. Karen Blixen was forced to return to Denmark in...

Out of Africa

Out of Africa
  • Author(s): Isak Dinesen
  • Location(s): Kenya
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

Out of Africa is Isak Dinesen’s memoir of her years in Africa, from 1914 to 1931, on a four-thousand-acre coffee plantation in the hills near Nairobi. She had come to Kenya from Denmark with her husband, and when they...

Out of Darkness

Out of Darkness
  • Author(s): Alex Gray
  • Location(s): Glasgow, Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(DSI William Lorimer Book 21) DSI William Lorimer and his wife Maggie are taking their first extended holiday for the first time in years, and they’re looking for an adventure. What better place than Zimbabwe, with its bustling cities...

Out of Darkness, Shining Light

Out of Darkness, Shining Light
  • Author(s): Petina Gappah
  • Location(s): Africa
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 19th century

This is the story of the body of Bwana Daudi, the Doctor, the explorer David Livingstone – and the sixty-nine men and women who carried his remains for 1,500 miles so that he could be borne across the sea...

Out of Earth

Out of Earth
  • Author(s): Sheyla Smanioto, Laura Garrison (Translator), Sophie Lewis (Translator)
  • Location(s): Brazil
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Recent

The story follows four generations of female characters as they navigate the hardships of life in the parched landscape of the Brazilian sertão. Male figures are peripheral, but are also revealed as the origin of much of the suffering...

Out of Egypt

Out of Egypt
  • Author(s): André Aciman
  • Location(s): Alexandria
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 20th century

Set in luxuriant cosmopolitan Alexandria, this richly colored memoir chronicles the exploits of a flamboyant Jewish family from its bold arrival in Egypt at the turn of the century to its defeated exodus three generations later. In elegant and...

Out of Ireland: A Novel

Out of Ireland: A Novel
  • Author(s): Marian O'Shea Wernicke
  • Location(s): Ireland, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1860's

In the late 1860s in Bantry, Ireland, sixteen-year-old Eileen O’Donovan is forced by her family to marry an older widower whom she barely knows and does not love. Her brother Michael, at age nineteen, becomes involved with the outlawed...

Out Of It

Out Of It
  • Author(s): Selma Dabbagh
  • Location(s): Palestine
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Gaza is being bombed. Rashid wakes to discover he’s got a scholarship to London, the escape route he’s been waiting for. Meanwhile, his twin sister, Iman, frustrated by the atrocities and inaction around her, grabs recklessly at an opportunity...

Out of Options

Out of Options
  • Author(s): Dianne Ascroft
  • Location(s): Ontario
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): 1980s

Out of Options is a prequel novella to the Century Cottage Cozy Mysteries series, and introduces Lois Stone and her companions, Raggs and Ribbons, a pair of perceptive calico cats. A dry district, a shocking secret, a missing person....

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